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Talk:The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)

There's surprisingly little known about this adaptation, so I tried to do some research into the cast and airdates.

Letters mentions only Shelley and a "large cast" (so at least something is known, but we can't ask Carpenter anymore).

Norman Shelley was a top dog over at BBC radio at the time. Would people like Carleton Hobbs and Brian Haines be involved as well? I tried to look for it, by searching BBC publications from that period. Sadly I ran into some snags:

The Listener is a main publication featuring a lot of information about radio and television programmes. Unfortunately, it's not available on-line, nor in MUSE, and my university library misses July 55-January 57 (kinda sucks)

The Radio Times is another, still existing, publication, which, sadly, my University library doesn't have at all.

So a request to whoever finds the time: could you check your University library, to see if there is any review, announcement or advertisement for the series? Please? -- Ederchil(Talk/Contribs/Edits) 15:27, 4 March 2009 (UTC)